I collect interesting thumb drives - my favorite is one shaped like a coke bottle, but the way they did the cat on this one is strange. All said, it would be funny to see a blue cats rear and tail sticking out of a computer.

Hah! I have a whole headless anesthetist (or other doc in scrubs) sticking out from my computer! Wasn't a gift from A pharma rep, though, but a locum agency. I'm slightly jealous of the craziness on the vet sector.

I agree, we in the vet field have some odd swag. I've seen everything from keychains to stuffed replicas of fleas, fake vomit and a fake 'pound of fat', tick twisters,and butt-shaped usb drives. However, the most unusual items tend to be the most popular - we have twisted senses of humour on the vet side.

Ya gotta love the large model of a dog heart riddled with heart worms crawling out of it, at my vet's office. No doubt it came from a drug rep. Totally revoltingly macabre. Fortuately, she removed it. A picture is definitely worth a thousand words.

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